RBT 40-Hour Training Pass Rates 2025: Every Provider the BACB Reported

ByFree RBT Practice Test Editorial Team
Abstract illustration of vertical bars of differing heights representing RBT training provider pass rates

By Free RBT Practice Test Editorial Team | Updated September 2026

What this table is

Every RBT applicant must complete a 40-hour training. Each year the BACB publishes the first-time exam pass rate of every publicly available provider that had at least 10 first-time candidates. The 2025 report (published May 2026) covers the candidates who took the exam in 2025. The site-wide first-time pass rate that year was 75%.

The five providers that trained the most candidates

ProviderFirst-time candidatesPass rate
Relias19,41880.4%
CentralReach13,70579.6%
Autism Partnership Foundation13,45661.2%
Rethink10,69081.1%
Behavior Webinars4,10079.0%

Relias, CentralReach and Rethink between them trained about 44,000 first-time candidates and all landed close to 80%. Autism Partnership Foundation, the free option, trained 13,456, about as many as CentralReach, and landed 18 points lower.

Full list, sorted by pass rate

ProviderPass rateCandidates
Northern Michigan University Bear Center100.0%18
Center for Behavior Analysis, University of West Florida100.0%12
Ivy Tech Community College96.2%26
Mississippi State University94.7%19
Behavior Development Solutions93.5%923
AppleTree Connection91.1%79
Advanced Behavior Education LLC90.9%11
University of South Florida90.2%163
Middle Tennessee State University90.0%10
University of Kansas87.1%178
ATCC86.4%747
Florida Tech / ABA Technologies86.3%1,074
Sidekick Learning84.5%658
MedCerts83.3%36
The Applied Behavior Analysis Center82.1%39
California Unified Service Providers81.8%55
Rethink81.1%10,690
Relias80.4%19,418
May Behavioral Services80.0%15
University of Missouri80.0%10
CentralReach79.6%13,705
Jigsaw Training79.2%77
Positive Behavior Supports, Corp.79.1%1,500
Behavior Webinars79.0%4,100
Path 2 Potential78.6%14
Special Learning77.5%71
Behavior University76.6%2,008
University of Texas at San Antonio69.7%33
GoBeyond Premier Training Labs69.2%13
Harcum College64.3%14
Autism Partnership Foundation61.2%13,456
Institute for Behavioral Training60.8%181
AutismBXTraining (Autism Skills Development)60.6%66
Behavior Analyst Supervisor60.0%25
Skillometry59.6%89
Arc Educates54.6%11
ABA Professional Learning Center50.0%46
Bhavioral Corporation50.0%16
Essential CEU Institute46.3%80
Applied ABC46.2%65
ABA International Academy43.2%37
Developing New Horizons41.4%70
ABA Courses40.0%15
Miami Dade College37.5%40
ABA 4 LOVE36.7%1,201
Easy as Pie ABA Training36.4%11
Exceptional Minds ABA Therapy32.9%76
Happy Children32.5%117
Child Hope Center21.4%14
Power In-Service Training Center17.7%186
José María Vargas University8.1%37

How to read it

  • Small providers (10 to 40 candidates) swing a lot from year to year; treat their percentages as a rough signal, not a ranking.
  • Among providers with 500 or more candidates, the spread is 36.7% (ABA 4 LOVE) to 93.5% (Behavior Development Solutions). Where you did your 40 hours is a real predictor of your odds.
  • The BACB notes that the provider name comes from what applicants typed on their application, so counts can differ from a provider’s own records.

If your provider is below 75%

You are not doomed, but the training probably covered the content outline without teaching you to apply it to scenarios. Do a timed full-length mock, score it by content area, and spend your remaining study time on the two weakest areas. The exam’s difficulty is in application, not recall.

See also: Is the RBT exam hard? 2025 pass rates and our guide to finding RBT training.

Practice the whole exam with our free RBT practice tests (five 75-question mocks and six area quizzes), or look up any term in the RBT Exam Glossary.

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